The History

Social networking all stared from email and electronic bulletin boards, but now these sites have become an empire of their own, with millions of users from all around the world!

Social networking sites in general are made up of computrer networks that are connected. This allows people to share information about their lives, including relationship statuses, pictures, likes and dislikes, and events they plan to attend. The first modern social network site SixDegrees created in 1997. The next most recent is Twitter created in 2006 with a slim lead with 95,800,000. And finally the obvious leader Facebook with 550,000,000 million users created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg and Eduardo Saverin. The next wave of Social Networks began when Ryze.com was launched in 2001 to help people leverage their business networks.

Figure 1. Distribution of work task interruption
Figure 1. Distribution of work task interruption

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